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Amazon adds new features to Rekognition software amid ongoing debate over facial recognition tech

Amazon is rolling out new features that make it easier for customers to search for specific items in large databases… Read More

Civil rights activists up in arms over Amazon update adding fear detection to facial recognition tech

Amazon’s latest update to its Rekognition software is renewing an outcry from civil rights groups over facial recognition technology. Amazon… Read More

Amazon recommends 6 guidelines for facial recognition legislation

Amazon is taking an active role advising lawmakers on legislation that would govern facial recognition technology, like the Seattle tech… Read More

AOC vs. Amazon: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of bias in tech giant’s facial detection tech

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s utilizes technology as only a digital native can. The 29-year-old Congresswoman knows the power of an authentic… Read More

Shareholders pressure Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

Amazon shareholders have filed a resolution asking the company to stop selling its facial recognition software to government agencies until… Read More

Is Amazon selling facial recognition software to ICE? Exec fields tough questions at NY hearing

An Amazon executive did little to quell suspicion that the company sells its facial recognition software to federal immigration authorities… Read More

Amazon challenges ACLU study on facial recognition tech and police

Amazon defended the law enforcement use cases for its facial recognition technology Friday in an effort to throw water on… Read More

Surprise delivery: Amazon HQ receives 150k signatures urging company to stop selling facial recognition software to cops

Amazon received an unexpected delivery Monday afternoon when community leaders dropped off four big boxes of signatures urging the company… Read More

Shareholders, ACLU urge Amazon to stop selling facial recognition software to police ahead of event at tech giant’s HQ

Amazon is taking more heat for selling its facial recognition software to local law enforcement agencies. The American Civil Liberties… Read More